What can we do to make this place better? - Page 3

*SRTDodge05* · 07-12-2007, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Kage

I can see it now... The ABXzone Adult section.

Bring on the Hooter Girls... I just love the Hooter Girls

FightingChance · 07-12-2007, 05:41 PM

Genmay is ABXZone's adult section.

Back on topic...

zapionics<alt> · 07-12-2007, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by bigtoe

I have been involved with quite a few forums and sites now, I am actually building the OCZsupport forum into an OCZ community and we are slowly getting there...but it does take time. Benching team promotes community spirit...there is nothing better than a bunch of guys all sat on the buy button hiding from their wives on the forum...LOL

What I quoted above is what I would do, if you want to go a different way no skin off my nose...its not my site, but most of what i quoted does work...its tried and tested.

Overall, don't think of what was suggested before on here, look for a new approach with new idea's...

The idea of a new approach with new ideas sounds fine but we should be careful not to throw out the baby with the bathwater either. What you have suggested sounds fine, but its being done many times over the web with mixed success/failure and seems limited in scope.

What is necessary is to inject life and vitality into the forum, which means people posting, and you do that by focusing on the widest variety of topics that you can that fit in with the theme and community that your offer.

The format and presentation of the forum is important, but only ever secondary importance (unless its very poor) because content rules. I can assure you that the prettiest site with boring content has no traffic, but an average looking site with great content has plenty.

The real trick is to offer a unique angle and we do that here with our friendly supportative and mature approach and we should continue to build on that IMO, that along with our variety of OT and Tech. We treat everyone with respect and we try to help out and we do it in a mature manner and we dont arrogantly lord it over newbies like some people do on some sites. To keep that going we have to remain approachable and understandable. To fall back into some specific hardcore geeky tech will just exclude people. Its fine to have specific forums for that but not the whole site! We have some very techy people here and we should take advantage of that and build and promote hardcore tech, but not at the expense of the other topics!

Just have a look around at all the other tech forums and you will see that we have a lot to offer the world, which is why people come back here. We have all been shocked at the thought that we could be assimiliated by GenMay and become just another sub-forum for that, but that will not happen if we stick to what we do best.

For those people who think "sex sells" and we need to add a little sexual reference here and there or some colorful language, or crude jokes, WE DONT. Look at the forums that do that; they dont have long term membership and they are a PITA to read! and they dont offer any real tech.
Why hasn't GenMay taken over the world by now for instance? Because generally only 19 year olds or thereabouts have time to waste on such crud and an immature sense of humour to enjoy it with and 19 year olds are only a small subset of the web population (with apologies to the more mature 19's). Sanjay knows that , thats why he wants to diversify.

Anyway, I'm not against having tech benching teams just cautioning that its not the holy grail as it will only appeal to a certain group. It should probably be done hand in hand with a wider variety of tech reviews, which by the way are always extremely popular, even more so than "articles". Reviews should always be about current on topic stuff from cases to power supplies/vid cards/monitors/fans to bios hacks, chipsets and motherboards, its all good.

Dont forget about gaming! It is a major draw for people on the web and we should treat it in the same way as tech. Any benching should include 3D gaming scores! I think we should open up the gaming forum a little; new popular titles should get their own sub-forum while they're hot,having one big thread for a game is often not the most intuitive way, especially as they get larger and having a gaming server would really open that forum up and generate more community there, while driving the tech forums.

Also, I dont understand why the emphasis about news on the front page, or even at all. There are many news sites out there doing it 1000X better than we are and in fact we often just link to them anyway. So long as our reviews and benchmarking are on current topic then we would do fine.

***sanjay*** · 07-12-2007, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by zapionics<alt>

Just have a look around at all the other tech forums and you will see that we have a lot to offer the world, which is why people come back here. We have all been shocked at the thought that we could be assimiliated by GenMay and become just another sub-forum for that, but that will not happen if we stick to what we do best.

For those people who think "sex sells" and we need to add a little sexual reference here and there or some colorful language, or crude jokes, WE DONT. Look at the forums that do that; they dont have long term membership and they are a PITA to read! and they dont offer any real tech.
Why hasn't GenMay taken over the world by now for instance? Because generally only 19 year olds or thereabouts have time to waste on such crud and an immature sense of humour to enjoy it with and 19 year olds are only a small subset of the web population (with apologies to the more mature 19's). Sanjay knows that , thats why he wants to diversify.

Everytime you insult genmay or assume you know me, it really ****** me off. I am a member of genmay and I have been so since it opened. I also have many friends that go back the full 5 years that forum has been around.

Stick to what you know and focus on ABXzone- please?

zapionics<alt> · 07-12-2007, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by sanjay

Everytime you insult genmay or assume you know me, it really ****** me off. I am a member of genmay and I have been so since it opened. I also have many friends that go back the full 5 years that forum has been around.

Stick to what you know and focus on ABXzone- please?

Fair enough, you're right I dont really know GenMay and it has as much right to exist as any other site, my apologies! I hope this doesnt detract from my other points tho.

raging bull · 07-12-2007, 09:36 PM

first off, i'd get mr steveo to do a major update on operating system/software installation guide.....

Underwater Mike · 07-12-2007, 09:38 PM

Host the code so that we get our folding sigs running again.

fvbounty · 07-12-2007, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by raging bull

first off, i'd get mr steveo to do a major update on operating system/software installation guide.....

Yes! One for Vista, the one for Xp was Great and Helped a lot of people....

3 of 7 · 07-12-2007, 09:43 PM

Get the thumbnails and pics working in the threads.. We're missing a ton of data with them gone.

***sanjay*** · 07-12-2007, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by 3 of 7

Get the thumbnails and pics working in the threads.. We're missing a ton of data with them gone.

I had CJ look at the picture/gallery issue and he said he fixed it. Also, Matty resolved the issue with wrong username for the images.

I have reached out to both of them to fix it.

*Kage* · 07-12-2007, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by sanjay

I had CJ look at the picture/gallery issue and he said he fixed it. Also, Matty resolved the issue with wrong username for the images.

I have reached out to both of them to fix it.

He means thread attachments. All of mine from before the updates (147/150) are... gone.

Check out the Desktop Screenshot thread... Your OS Desktop Screenshots

3 of 7 · 07-12-2007, 11:41 PM

This is a different issue, It's the pictures within the actual threads...
Pirate PC built by yamawho

*Kage* · 07-13-2007, 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by 3 of 7

This is a different issue, It's the pictures within the actual threads...
Pirate PC built by yamawho

Pictures in threads as attachments would fall under the general category of thread attachments...

The example I supplied is the desktop screenshot thread. It has 638 image attachments... All are missing.

3 of 7 · 07-13-2007, 01:46 AM

Right you are Kage, I didn't see your post before I posted.... I'm glad it isn't just me.... But it will be a sad day if all the thread attachments are boogered....

*Kage* · 07-13-2007, 01:48 AM

I would certainly hate having to try and replace 147 attachments.

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07-13-2007, 01:46 AM	#44
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